It’s not every day that a $2,000 diecast comes along, but we figured out pretty quickly that Structo’s mega-buck, mega-rare 1:8 replica of Dean Jeffries Mantaray isn’t just any diecast. At least one famous California customizer agrees: from what we gathered during an enthusiastic conversation just a couple of weeks before his passing, Dean Jeffries — the man himself — felt that way, too.

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